https://sourceforge.net/p/swig/news/2025-12-08T07:43:10.394000ZRecent posts to news2025-12-08T07:43:10.394000Z2025-12-08T07:43:10.394000ZWilliam Fultonhttps://sourceforge.net/u/wsfulton/https://sourceforge.netdb559dde3e465a71e20bf876e059df03f62e7217

<div class="markdown_content"><ul> <li>Fix errors with some combinations of Py_LIMITED_API and recent Python versions.</li> <li>A couple of other minor fixes/improvements.</li> </ul></div>

2025-10-20T18:04:52.063000Z2025-10-20T18:04:52.063000ZWilliam Fultonhttps://sourceforge.net/u/wsfulton/https://sourceforge.net2c57bf10f9a54942fce9d7da6048f36543ac5b29

<div class="markdown_content"><ul> <li>Python-3.14 and early Python-3.15 support including modernisations:<ul> <li>Remove some DeprecationWarnings.</li> <li>Added support for free-threading Python.</li> <li>Multi-phase module initialization.</li> <li>Use heap types instead of static types.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Go minimum version is now 1.20.</li> <li>Removed support for MzScheme/Racket.</li> <li>Minor typemap improvements.</li> <li>compactdefaultarg feature improvements and fixes.</li> <li>Fewer C, C++ and Java compiler warnings in generated code.</li> <li>c++-14 auto return type parsing fixes.</li> <li>Various improvements related to parsing expressions.</li> <li>Runtime type system thread safety fixes.</li> <li>Minor fixes and improvements specific to:<br/> C#, D, Guile, Java, Javascript, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl.</li> </ul></div>

2025-04-15T21:36:39.582000Z2025-04-15T21:36:39.582000ZWilliam Fultonhttps://sourceforge.net/u/wsfulton/https://sourceforge.net8fbe0f8c8dc539f831a8f58bb6e2760ef7642747

<div class="markdown_content"><ul> <li>Small number of regression fixes for Python and Java.</li> <li>Corner case operator precedence bug fix affecting type deduction.</li> <li>Octave 10 compilation errors fix.</li> </ul></div>

2024-10-20T18:43:47.928000Z2024-10-20T18:43:47.928000ZWilliam Fultonhttps://sourceforge.net/u/wsfulton/https://sourceforge.net3e8986de2d50d45b8cdc34af4b0c5a79f9fc77c5

<div class="markdown_content"><p>SWIG-4.3.0 summary:</p> <ul> <li>Add experimental support for C as a target language.</li> <li>MzScheme/Racket is deprecated and planned for removal in SWIG-4.4.</li> <li>The distributed Windows binary is now a 64-bit executable.</li> <li>Add some missing use of move semantics for performance improvements.</li> <li>Enhanced handling of namespaces when using the nspace feature.</li> <li>STL wrapper enhancements for std::unique_ptr, std::string_view,<br/> std::filesystem.</li> <li>Various enum and enum class wrapping improvements.</li> <li>Other C++ handling improvements around templates, friends, C++11<br/> trailing return types and C++17 fold expressions.</li> <li>Many parser improvements for both C and C++, especially expressions.</li> <li>Improvements to handling of string and character literals.</li> <li>Minor preprocessor fixes.</li> <li>Python: Stricter stable ABI conformance, add support for python-3.13.</li> <li>C#: Add support for converting Doxygen comments into XML C# comments.</li> <li>Various other target language specific enhancements and updates for<br/> Java, Javascript, Lua, MzScheme, Ocaml, Octave, Perl, Python, R, Ruby.</li> </ul></div>

2024-02-24T14:07:35.600000Z2024-02-24T14:07:35.600000ZWilliam Fultonhttps://sourceforge.net/u/wsfulton/https://sourceforge.net7a0a1f5f9c1a761f9450edfbe1b3edd612de016a

<div class="markdown_content"><p>SWIG-4.2.1 is primarily a stability and regression fix release, but also includes:</p> <ul> <li>Tcl 9.0 support.</li> <li>Octave 9.0 support.</li> <li>Improvements wrapping friend functions.</li> <li>Variadic templated functions within a template support.</li> <li>Type deduction enhancements.</li> </ul></div>

2023-12-31T00:12:46.767000Z2023-12-31T00:12:46.767000ZWilliam Fultonhttps://sourceforge.net/u/wsfulton/https://sourceforge.nete723e96c7361cd8b86369cb68da4c2acd16f8914

<div class="markdown_content"><p>SWIG-4.2.0 summary:</p> <ul> <li>Various template wrapping improvements: template template parameters,<br/> variadic templates, partially specialized templates, const template<br/> parameters and improved error checking instantiating templates.</li> <li>Improved decltype() support for expressions.</li> <li>C++14 auto without trailing return type and C++11 auto variables.</li> <li>Numerous C++ using declarations improvements.</li> <li>Numerous fixes for constructors, destructors and assignment operators:<br/> implicit, default and deleted and related non-assignable variable<br/> wrappers.</li> <li>STL: std::array and std::map improvements, std::string_view support<br/> added.</li> <li>Various C preprocessor improvements.</li> <li>Various issues fixed to do with architecture specific long type.</li> <li>Various Doxygen improvements.</li> <li>D1/Tango support removed. D2/Phobos is now the supported D version<br/> and SWIG now generates code which works with recent D2 releases.</li> <li>New Javascript generator targeting Node.js binary stable ABI Node-API.</li> <li>Octave 8.1 support added.</li> <li>PHP7 support removed, PHP8 is now the supported PHP version.</li> <li>Python STL container wrappers now use the Python Iterator Protocol.</li> <li>Python stable ABI support added.</li> <li>Python 3.12 support added.</li> <li>Ruby 3.2 and 3.3 support.</li> <li>Scilab 2023.* support added.</li> <li>Various minor enhancements for C#, Go, Guile, Javascript, Lua, Ocaml,<br/> Perl, PHP, R, Racket, Ruby, Scilab and Tcl.</li> <li>A number of deprecated features have been removed.</li> </ul></div>

2022-11-30T22:52:52.362000Z2022-11-30T22:52:52.362000ZWilliam Fultonhttps://sourceforge.net/u/wsfulton/https://sourceforge.net3e0deee47bb3603ce76b0e7074d91f1ef837521f

<div class="markdown_content"><p>SWIG-4.1.1 summary:</p> <ul> <li>Couple of stability fixes.</li> <li>Stability fix in ccache-swig when calculating hashes of inputs.</li> <li>Some template handling improvements.</li> <li>R - minor fixes plus deprecation for rtypecheck typemaps being optional.</li> </ul></div>

2022-10-24T23:04:15.531000Z2022-10-24T23:04:15.531000ZWilliam Fultonhttps://sourceforge.net/u/wsfulton/https://sourceforge.netdffa27324f0238e3f1de41431fdf5c11024f6b1f

<div class="markdown_content"><p><strong>SWIG-4.1.0 summary:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Add Javascript Node v12-v18 support, remove support prior to v6.</li> <li>Octave 6.0 to 6.4 support added.</li> <li>Add PHP 8 support.</li> <li>PHP wrapping is now done entirely via PHP's C API - no more .php wrapper.</li> <li>Perl 5.8.0 is now the oldest version SWIG supports.</li> <li>Python 3.3 is now the oldest Python 3 version SWIG supports.</li> <li>Python 3.9-3.11 support added.</li> <li>Various memory leak fixes in Python generated code.</li> <li>Scilab 5.5-6.1 support improved.</li> <li>Many improvements for each and every target language.</li> <li>Various preprocessor expression handling improvements.</li> <li>Improved C99, C++11, C++14, C++17 support. Start adding C++20 standard.</li> <li>Make SWIG much more move semantics friendly.</li> <li>Add C++ std::unique_ptr support.</li> <li>Few minor C++ template handling improvements.</li> <li>Various C++ using declaration fixes.</li> <li>Few fixes for handling Doxygen comments.</li> <li>GitHub Actions is now used instead of Travis CI for continuous integration.</li> <li>Add building SWIG using CMake as a secondary build system.</li> <li>Update optional SWIG build dependency for regex support from PCRE to PCRE2.</li> </ul></div>

2020-06-08T19:33:26.286000Z2020-06-08T19:33:26.286000ZWilliam Fultonhttps://sourceforge.net/u/wsfulton/https://sourceforge.net138d031f5c99e832e771a03810a66b2f5e876fc4

<div class="markdown_content"><p><strong>SWIG-4.0.2 summary:</strong></p> <ul> <li>A few fixes around doxygen comment handling.</li> <li>Ruby 2.7 support added.</li> <li>Various minor improvements to C#, D, Java, OCaml, Octave, Python, R, Ruby.</li> <li>Considerable performance improvement running SWIG on large interface files.</li> </ul></div>

2019-08-21T17:40:51.207000Z2019-08-21T17:40:51.207000ZWilliam Fultonhttps://sourceforge.net/u/wsfulton/https://sourceforge.net82530e738e3a1a1aee4d09b82adc6c045143c91a

<div class="markdown_content"><p>SWIG-4.0.1 summary:</p> <ul> <li>SWIG now cleans up on error by removing all generated files.</li> <li>Add Python 3.8 support.</li> <li>Python Sphinx compatibility added for Doxygen comments.</li> <li>Some minor regressions introduced in 4.0.0 were fixed.</li> <li>Fix some C++17 compatibility problems in Python and Ruby generated code.</li> <li>Minor improvements/fixes for C#, Java, Javascript, Lua, MzScheme, Ocaml, Octave and Python.</li> </ul></div>